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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – A family of four escaped safely from a burning home Wednesday night after a neighbor broke through two locked doors to alert them to the fire.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan Frye, a Honolulu police officer and union vice-president, was outside his home when his wife called 911 to report the fire on Auhuhu Street. Frye ran to the neighboring house, where the tenant named Victor and his three children \u2014 ages 3, 5 and 9 \u2014 were inside unaware of the danger.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t hesitate at all. I ran down here,\u201d Frye said in an interview. \u201cRight here is my neighbor\u2019s front door. Pounding on it, knocking on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The front door was locked with a deadbolt and held in place by its frame. Frye attacked it bare-handed and then shouldered open the inside door.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis door, thankfully, wasn\u2019t too hard for me to break down,\u201d Frye said when asked if he had kicked down doors before. \u201cQuite, quite frequently, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fire in back room went unnoticed<\/h2>\n

Firefighters in 11 units arrived at the scene around 8 p.m. The fire was in a back room on the second floor of the concrete home, which meant the family downstairs did not know the home was burning.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything was upstairs, so Victor had no idea,\u201d Frye said. \u201cHonestly, a few more minutes, and smoke would have been coming down into their unit. They might have been trapped, for all we know.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jacob Wruck, the homeowner, said Frye downplayed the effort required to break through the doors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey always talk about typical people getting bursts of adrenaline, and then, you know, I\u2019m pretty sure that that\u2019s what happened,\u201d Wruck said.<\/p>\n

Wruck is a reservist and veteran who is a graduate student studying disaster planning.<\/p>\n

Cause and damage<\/h2>\n

Firefighters determined that a shattered incandescent light bulb sparked the fire. The blaze caused more than $350,000 in damage.<\/p>\n

Victor and his three children are doing fine, Wruck said. Frye said he was satisfied with the outcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust knowing that I was able to make a difference, then get everybody else safely. That\u2019s all I ever wanted, and that\u2019s why I do what I do and why I love what I do,\u201d Frye said.<\/p>\n

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